Tag Archives: Millet

Not in my salon

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Dave

Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Leave a comment

SEURAT: Quest For The Redemption Of MATTER

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dave

Studies of Georges Seurat have usually focused on the subject matter; but there can be little doubt that the painter himself nailed his flag firmly to the mast of technical innovation. Technique was, as he wrote to his friend, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged André Chastel, Antonia Cunningham, Charles Blanc, Chevreul, Claude Monet, Courbet, David Baptiste-Chirot, Ernest Bloch, Felix Feneon, Frederic Clay Bartlett, George Earl Ortman, Georges Seurat, Hans Haacke, Jodi Hauptman, John Gage, Karl D. Buchberg, Macelo Guimaraes Lima, Manfred Hermes, Meyer Schapiro, Millet, Nan Rosenthal, Nat Rosenthal, Odilon Redon, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Robert L. Herbert, Stanley Hayter, Thomas Kostner, W.I. Homer | Leave a comment

SEURAT & THE PSYCHOLOGY of GEOMETRY: Point By Point

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Dave

Over the past several decades, many scholars have attempted to explain the meaning of this great composition. For some, it shows the growing middle class at leisure. Others see it as a representation of social tensions between modern city dwellers … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Aman-Jean, Antonia Cunningham, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Corot, Donatello Sculpture, Edgar Degas, Felix Feneon, Frederic Clay Bartlett, Georges Seurat, Hans Holbein, Jesse Bryant Wilder, Jodi Hauptman, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lars Roper, Millet, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Signac, Rembrandt, Robert L. Herbert, Sir Kenneth Clark, Thomas Kostner, Vermeer | Leave a comment

STICKING TO YOUR GUNS WITH A CONSTABLE

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Dave

John Constable( 1776-1837 ) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home-now known as “Constable Country”-which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I … Continue reading →